Civil Service Statistics data browser (2024)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Ethnicity / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Parent_department Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian AA/AO AO 255 235 25360 26140
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian EO EO 250 240 29930 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian G6/G7 G6 110 100 73200 72500
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian G6/G7 G7 495 465 58780 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian SCS level SCS level 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian SEO/HEO HEO 110 105 36410 35300
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Asian SEO/HEO SEO 110 105 41850 41800
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black AA/AO AO 130 120 25890 26190
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black EO EO 160 155 30250 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black G6/G7 G6 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black G6/G7 G7 230 225 60550 58000
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black SCS level SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black SEO/HEO HEO 70 70 36930 35780
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Black SEO/HEO SEO 45 45 42940 42650
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed AA/AO AO 50 50 24870 24480
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed EO EO 65 65 30400 30130
In post 2024 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed G6/G7 G6 30 30 74400 72760
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2024-07-25

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Four organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
On 8 July 2024, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities changed its name to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).